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Randal Schwartz on All Things Smalltalk

Squeak joins the Software Freedom Conservancy

This is big.  The community has been working towards having the Squeak Project join the SFC for years. And we've finally finished! Through the SFC, we can avoid duplication of legal and administrative services to accept donations and deal with copyright and license issues.

Joining the SFC was also the driving force behind getting Squeak's license "squeaky clean", as part of the service provided is to defend our license, and they require due diligence before accepting that responsibility.

Now Squeak is legally clean to use, and defended, and if you're in the US, you have a much higher chance of being able to make tax-deductible donations to further the project.  We're open for business, bay-bee!

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Squeak 4.1 has been released!

Andreas Raab announced Squeak 4.1 on the squeak-dev mailing list:

Squeak 4.1 combines the license change occurring in the 4.0 release with the development work that has been going on while the relicensing process took place.

Much of the work in this release has been focused on fundamental improvements. Major achievements are the integration of Cog's closure implementation, the improved UI look and feel, the new anti-aliased fonts, the core library improvements, and the modularity advances.

This is quite an accomplishment.  Not only do we now have a clean-licensed Squeak, we also have the leading-edge version of Squeak on which future development can be based!

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